Re: [cc65] NES Development - Playpower introduction

I'd love to jump in and say hello, as well.  I've been following this list
for several months now, as I'm helping to coordinate the
playpower.orgproject, which is using $12 famicom-clones as a platform
for computer-aided
learning games in developing countries.  One of our major goals is to make
the famicom-clone more accessible to developers by creating an open-source
IDE for the NES-6502.

We've been successful at creating new ASM code, loading it onto cartridges
(with EEPROMs), and playing it in our famiclones.  But ASM isn't terribly
accessible.   nBASIC is another "language" we've looked at for producing new
NES code...  but this has a pretty high failure rate, and we haven't been
able to get the compiled code to work in actual cartridges.

The cc65 C compiler could potentially be the perfect platform for NES
content development--I was especially excited to see Tachdaun's contribution
of the v0.1 NES library.  Currently, lawrence and a few other students are
working on producing some sample code that will compile and function in an
actual cartridge in an NES and our famiclone.  Is anyone aware of previous
attempts to do this?

I really appreciate all that you have accomplished with cc65.  I hope that
the playpower.org community will eventually be able to meaningfully
contribute to cc65 -- and in the meantime, thanks in advance for your
help.   Suggestions and advice are always welcomed.

Cheers,
Derek

www.playpower.org
skype: cognitiveculture
m: 917 544 4171


On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Lawrence Leung <lcleung@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I have been ghosting this list for a little while and I've noticed that
> there have been conflicting reports on whether or not the atmos.lib file is
> needed to compile certain .nes files. I know for that the simple "hello
> world" needs the atmos.lib file to be compiled correctly but the sample
> "controllertest" from the cc65 website does not. Could somebody clear up the
> function of this library?
>
> Thanks,
> Lawrence
>

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